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It is impossible to deny the soundness of this requirement and its completeness as an answer to one of the apologies.
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Sumner asserts the validity of the requirement against nepotism in public office.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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